Bremer BuchPremiere: Hendrik Lambertus – Das Rad der Welt

In the organizer's words:

The captivating historical novel about the largest world map of the Middle Ages

Lüneburg around 1300: Young Agnes suffers under the power games of her father, Prince Otto, who is determined to marry his daughter off to a nobleman. But Agnes' love is for science: she enthusiastically studies works of natural history and geography. She creates sketches for her own representation of the world, a map that is to incorporate all her knowledge.
During her research, she meets the young grocer Liudger, who shares her passion and with whom she falls in love. She plans to run away with him, to escape the constraints of her station and finally see something of the world, when her father finds out about the affair and sends her to the heath monastery of Ebstorf as penance for the rest of her days.
Agnes is desperate until she discovers the monastery's great treasure trove of knowledge: the library. As her dream of traveling recedes into the unattainable distance, her determination to complete her map grows. A magnificent document that depicts the world as a whole - a map that could go down in history. If Agnes succeeds in completing it ...